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Saft - Add very useful features to Safari
Authored by: dwdavey on Nov 04, '04 07:07:40PM

Saft Rules!..

I really love it for the RSS feature in the sidebar (yes i know the new safari and firefox include this as well).. full screen is also very nice but be weary of running Kiosk mode. If you're like me you'll just turn things on in the prefs just to see what they do.. Kiosk mode isn't one of those that you want to turn on unless you know what it's about to do.. I had to boot off a seperate drive to remove the saft plug-in then reinstall it just to get that thing to turn off. :) Regardless I've started making my own plug-ins for RSS feeds. It's well worth the 10 bucks. I can't remember if MacOSX Hints had a plug-in included or it was one that I built.. but so far I've got news feeds from MacFixit, MacNN, MacOSX Hints, Slashdot, and Apple Slashdot.. it's just too easy to get all your news these days! :) if anyone wants these plug-ins feel free to ask.. I'll post them somewhere for download.



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Saft - Add very useful features to Safari
Authored by: zacht on Nov 05, '04 12:53:02PM
Eek! What about force quitting? There's a keyboard command that might be able to force quit full-screen apps: command-shift-option-escape. See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031028194206991 for info. Apparently it's not 100 percent reliable, but if it works for the Saft kiosk mode....?

zach

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Saft - Add very useful features to Safari
Authored by: dwdavey on Nov 05, '04 01:03:56PM

the thing with kiosk mode is you have the ability to set safari to launch in kiosk mode on start. so everytime you launch safari, there you are.. in kiosk. no way to turn that off even if you were able to force quit (which you can't.. system key commands are disable for security) also, you can set it so that safari starts on boot in kiosk mode. you can't force quit because it disables the quit command.. the force quit command.. and various other keyboard shortcuts. basically it takes over the machine. that's fine if you're going to be using it for, well, kiosks.. but there's no need to turn it on for your personal computer use. :)



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Saft - Escaping kiosk mode
Authored by: dolphinboy on Nov 06, '04 11:36:51AM

This I found on Saft's FAQ page (I did not verify its functionality, haven't downloaded Saft yet):

Q: I Cannot Quit Safari

A: You have just enabled kiosk mode!!!
To turn it off, use the shortcut cmd-"," to open the preferences, and give your password when it asks you for it. Then you get the access to preference panels, there you can just turn off kisok mode in Saft panel. Restart Safari to go back to normal mode.



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